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In 2012, Sovacool was invited by the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC) to be a contributing author to its Working Group II, which deals with climate change adaptation, of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment chapter on "Rural Poverty and Livelihoods".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vermontlaw.edu/our_faculty/faculty_highlights/faculty_news/prof_sovacool_to_help_author_ipcc_climate_change_report.htm |title=Prof. Sovacool to Help Author IPCC Climate Change Report |author= |date=March 1, 2012 |work=Vermont Law School }}</ref> |
In 2012, Sovacool was invited by the [[Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change]] (IPCC) to be a contributing author to its Working Group II, which deals with climate change adaptation, of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment chapter on "Rural Poverty and Livelihoods".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vermontlaw.edu/our_faculty/faculty_highlights/faculty_news/prof_sovacool_to_help_author_ipcc_climate_change_report.htm |title=Prof. Sovacool to Help Author IPCC Climate Change Report |author= |date=March 1, 2012 |work=Vermont Law School }}</ref> |
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Sovacool is Project Manager of The Energy Security and Justice Program at Vermont Law School, which investigates the ethical access to energy services and the injustice of current patterns of energy production and use. It explores "how to equitably provide available, affordable, reliable, efficient, environmentally benign, proactively governed and socially acceptable energy services to households and consumers".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.vermontlaw.edu/Academics/Environmental_Law_Center/Institutes_and_Initiatives/Institute_for_Energy_and_the_Environment/Ongoing_Research_Projects/Energy_Security_and_Justice.htm |title=Institute for Energy and the Environment |author= |date= |work=Vermont Law School }}</ref> |
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Benjamin K. Sovacool is a Visiting Associate Professor at Vermont Law School and founding Director of the Energy Security & Justice Program at their Institute for Energy and Environment. He was formerly an Assistant Professor and Research Fellow at the National University of Singapore.
Sovacool's research interests include energy policy, environmental issues, and science and technology policy.[1] He is the author or editor of eight books and more than 130 peer reviewed academic articles on various aspects of energy policy and climate change, and has presented research at more than 60 international conferences and symposia. He is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy, Energy & Environment, Electricity Journal, and Energy, and Energy for Sustainable Development.
In 2007 Sovacool co-edited Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths and in 2008 he wrote The Dirty Energy Dilemma which won a 2009 Nautilus Award. His other books include Powering the Green Economy, The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security, Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power, and Climate Change and Global Energy Security.
Academic experience
Sovacool is a Visiting Associate Professor at Vermont Law School and founding Director of the Energy Security & Justice Program at their Institute for Energy and Environment, which aims to "expand global access to sustainable energy and craft national energy policies that adapt to climate change without worsening socioeconomic inequality".[2] Sovacool says "Too often, national and international energy policies have focused on protecting adequate supplies of conventional fuels with little or no regard for the long-term consequences to the people and cultures the policies are intended to benefit". The Program, in cooperation with the MacArthur Foundation, Rockefeller Foundation, Asia Research Institute, and the National University of Singapore, has published a series of case studies examining energy security in Asia.[2]
Sovacool was previously assistant professor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore, and Research Fellow in the Energy Governance Program at the Centre on Asia and Globalization. Sovacool has a PhD in Science and Technology Studies from Virginia Tech.[3]
Sovacool has served in advisory and research capacities at the National University of Singapore, U.S. National Science Foundation's Electric Power Networks Efficiency and Security Program, Virginia Tech Consortium on Energy Restructuring, Virginia Center for Coal and Energy Research, New York State Energy Research and Development Authority, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Semiconductor Materials and Equipment International, U.S. Department of Energy's Climate Change Technology Program, Union of Concerned Scientists, the International Institute for Applied Systems and Analysis near Vienna, Austria, and the International Energy Agency in Paris, France.[4][1][5]
Sovacool has consulted for the Asian Development Bank, United Nations Development Program, and United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific.[4]
In 2012, Sovacool was invited by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to be a contributing author to its Working Group II, which deals with climate change adaptation, of the forthcoming Fifth Assessment chapter on "Rural Poverty and Livelihoods".[6]
Sovacool is Project Manager of The Energy Security and Justice Program at Vermont Law School, which investigates the ethical access to energy services and the injustice of current patterns of energy production and use. It explores "how to equitably provide available, affordable, reliable, efficient, environmentally benign, proactively governed and socially acceptable energy services to households and consumers".[7]
Research work
Sovacool's research interests include energy policy, environmental issues, and science and technology policy.[1] He is the author or editor of eight books and more than 130 peer reviewed academic articles on various aspects of energy policy and climate change, and has presented research at more than 60 international conferences and symposia. He is a frequent contributor to Energy Policy, Energy & Environment, Electricity Journal, and Energy, and Energy for Sustainable Development. Sovacool has also appeared on the BBC World News, Bloomberg Live!, and Channel News Asia and been interviewed by Newsweek International, Associated Press, United Press International.[1][9] His work on carbon emissions from nuclear power stations has also been reviewed in Nature.[10]
Sovacool's research has taken him to more than 50 countries, including:[11]
- Maldives (an island nation in the Indian Ocean) to study its government response to climate change.
- Borneo (in Indonesia) and along the Mekong Delta (Vietnam) to tour large-scale megadams.
- The Caspian Sea to study oil pipelines.
- Thailand and Indonesia to study gas pipelines.
- Ukraine to research the dangers involved with nuclear power at Chernobyl.
- Many European countries to study how public policy is used to promote renewable energy.
- India and Sri Lanka to study wind farms.
- Nepal and Tibet to study micro-hydro systems.
- The Gobi Desert in Mongolia and the rural mountains of Papua New Guinea to study solar energy facilities.[11]
Books
In 2007, Sovacool co-edited Energy and American Society: Thirteen Myths which has been reviewed in Energy Policy[12] and the Annals of the Association of American Geographers.[13] In 2008, he wrote The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What’s Blocking Clean Power in the United States which was published by Praeger and won a 2009 Nautilus Award.[9]
In Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power (2011) Sovacool says that there is a "consensus among a broad base of independent, nonpartisan experts that nuclear power plants are a poor choice for producing electricity", and that "energy efficiency programs and renewable power technologies are better than nuclear power plants".[14]
His other books include:
- Miguel Mendonça, David Jacobs and Benjamin K. Sovacool (2009). Powering the Green Economy: The Feed-In Tariff Handbook, Earthscan.
- Benjamin K. Sovacool (Ed.) (2010). The Routledge Handbook of Energy Security, Routledge.
- Marilyn A. Brown and Benjamin K. Sovacool (2011). Climate Change and Global Energy Security: An Overview of Technology and Policy Options, MIT Press.
- Benjamin K. Sovacool and Scott Valentine (forthcoming). The International Politics of Nuclear Power: Economics, Security and Governance, Routledge.
- Benjamin K. Sovacool, and IM Drupady (forthcoming). The Governance of Small-Scale Renewable Energy in Developing Asia, (New York: Ashgate).
See also
- Peter A. Bradford
- Mark Cooper
- Amory Lovins
- Mycle Schneider
- M.V. Ramana
- David A. Schlissel
- Stephen Thomas (professor)
- Mark Diesendorf
- Renewable energy policy
- Comparisons of life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions
References
- ^ a b c d Profile: Benjamin K. Sovacool
- ^ a b "VT Law School Launches Energy Security & Justice Project". Vermont Law School. January 24, 2012.
- ^ Vermont Law School Faculty Directory
- ^ a b Institute for Energy and the Environment
- ^ Benjamin K. Sovacool, Marilyn A. Brown. The Dirty Energy Dilemma: What's Blocking Clean Power in the United States, ABC-CLIO, 2008, ISBN 978-0-313-35540-0, ISBN 0-313-35540-1.
- ^ "Prof. Sovacool to Help Author IPCC Climate Change Report". Vermont Law School. March 1, 2012.
- ^ "Institute for Energy and the Environment". Vermont Law School.
- ^ Benjamin K. Sovacool. A Critical Evaluation of Nuclear Power and Renewable Electricity in Asia, Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 40, No. 3, August 2010, p. 386.
- ^ a b Curriculum Vitae: Dr. Benjamin K. Sovacool
- ^ Kurt Kleiner. Nuclear energy: assessing the emissions, Nature Reports Climate Change, 24 September 2008.
- ^ a b Kaitlin Gill (4 January 2012). "A Ball of Energy". John Carroll Magazine.
- ^ Fereidoon P. Sioshansi. Energy and American Society—Thirteen Myths (Book Review) Energy Policy, 35 (2007), pp. 6554–6555.
- ^ Pasqualetti, Martin J. (2008). "Review of Energy and American Society--Thirteen Myths, B. Sovacool, M. Brown (eds.)". Annals of the Association of American Geographers. Vol. 98, no. 2. Routledge. pp. 504–505. doi:10.1080/00045600801944210Template:Inconsistent citations
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: postscript (link). - ^ Benjamin K. Sovacool (2011). "Contesting the Future of Nuclear Power" (PDF). World Scientific. p. 248–250.